Management Speak: I didn’t get your e-mail.
Translation: I only read the important e-mails … like the ones from my boss.
Alternate Translation: Uh … could you show me how to bring up the e-mail system again?
IS Survivalist Tom Loy demonstrates significant limitations to electronic mail systems.
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Great Quotations, 8/16/1999
“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?” – Albert Einstein